“Right, now the staff. Sorry Dora, you must be exhausted by now? Lets go get some food before we to the next lot. There are over 500 staff in the palace. Not all of them will be here today but if we can get all these done today then there will only be a couple to chase up.”“It is exhausting, but for Mia and Rota’s safety it must be done.”“Thank you” Jay said“No need, I Love Mia like she was my own daughter, I am glad she has you by her side though, she is strong and courageous but she is out of her depths”“Aren’t we all,” said Jay with a shake of his head. “I still have to figure out what my position is in all this too.”“Yes, I suppose that everything has change for you too”“Here we are,” said Jay as he turned into a busy kitchen. He called out to the chef “Hey Matty, Two meals please.”The Chef looked up

Jay chuckled as he led her into a beautiful garden that had a long table down the centre ladened with the most beautiful food she had ever seen, they were the last to arrive and an excited Rota beckoned them to the top of the table so they could take their places. Mia noticed relieved that it was all the people from “Mistress”, what she now considered as her family. She breathed out a sigh of relief. This she could do. Everyone greeted them. They smiled back in appreciation. And took their seats.Rota stood, “I want to thank you all for coming this afternoon. I wanted to thank you all personally for all you have done and celebrate all that we have accomplished over the past weeks. But I also want to work out what will be done next for the rest of the girls still trapped on the other planets. Rota sat down. “Please start eating .”There were nods all around the table. Jays and his teams first mission was finished but there was still another

“Oh yes, I would rather like to get out of this dress first.”“Ok come here I will undo you and you can go change while I stall him” Mia walked over to Jay and presented him with her back. He quickly undid her dress and waited until Mia was in their dressing room before he opened the door.“Hello, Queen Rota sent me to discuss Queen Mia’s new wardrobe”“Yes, please come in” You can set yourself up in here, Mia will be out in a minute”“Very well. He took the books that turned out to be fabric samples and a sketch pads and arrayed them on the coffee table.”A few moments Mia came out, wearing her cargo pants and a long sleeve top. She still had her makeup on and hair done so it was a bit of a funny contrast.“Thank you for coming . . . arr”“Rupert” The dress maker supplied “and these are my servants Skyla, Evie.”Mia noti

Day 20 It was just before 9am the next day and everyone had gathered for the first meeting in what used to be the Kings Apartments.“Alright,” Jay began “thank you everyone for being here. Today we need to figure out, how this team will operate and how we can get into Mercer to rescue the girls.”“I’ve given the new team, some thought. We will have people who operate in a combative role . . . trained soldiers and a non-combative role, this will cover things like advisors, the gifted and administration. I suppose we will figure out most of this on the way and a lot of you already know the tactics that I use but please look out for the people who don’t. Is there anyone else you can think of that we need on this team?”We will need a good cook, if we don’t have your Mum, Shimel and Lacy abord,” offered Bunny“Maybe someone to clean and tidy?” Suggest

Hunter took a big breath, “Yeah. There was another guy that started in the same class as me but his Father was 2nd in command of the Viv military, as you can imagine he couldn’t fail, instructors spent twice as much time getting him through than anyone else. I seen him take the place of other brilliant soldiers when he was incapable. No one in the class could pass or rank up until he had. It was a complete Joke. He lorded it over everyone because of his success, he didn’t even see that he was holding us back. The brass finally got sick of pandering to him and finally let me rank up before him but they got raked over the coals and he was made commander too. We were both sent out on a mission together.” Hunter stopped to rub his hand over his face “He led his team straight into a trap, they were captured and tortured while he bargained for his freedom with classified information. It was two days before my team could get into a position to rescu